Arthurs Creek & Strathewen RFB

We now have a brigade website: http://arthurscreekcfa.org.au/ It is still a bit rough around the edges, but from now on all news, dates an...

We are getting new pagers, in theory before the start of the fire season.  This is what they look like.   Yes, a bit "back to the futur...

I am sending this email to you all as a challenge to your brigade members to enter a team in the Doreen Relay For Life event (details below)...

Bridge Inn Road, Mernda Wednesday 25 July to Tuesday 30 October, 9.00am - 3.30pm   Near Cravens Road Lanes closed in both directions...

If anyone is still interested in media training could you please RSVP by COB this Friday, 27 July. At this stage, the only course that wil...

Gas leak in Wonthaggi, Fiskville Fact File, Chief's Q&A

Members will be aware, last year the Australian Parliament unanimously recognised occupational cancer for firefighters by enacting presumpti...

Some photos from Mike of the new Medium Tanker that was on show at South Morang. From the deck behind the driver looking towards the r...

A couple of photos from the Bendigo Bank Grant Presentation at Bridges.

Please refer to the attached letter about some upcoming FSC stakeholder forums about Emergency Management in the New Era . Geoff

VFBV has advised of forthcoming board vacancies on both the VFBV and CFA Boards.  If you are interested, please refer to the attached letter...

North West Metro News Winter 2012

Professor Rob Joy Report, Healesville fire, blood donor challenge

006/2012: Fire Station Motor Room Environment Vehicle and Equipment Checks All Operations Bulletins are available on CFA Online: Path: B...

Please find attached a memo from the Chief Officer regarding an update on the National Emergency Medal (NEM). Kind Regards. Tanya Ryan ...

The Chief Officer's latest blog entries: From the Chief Officer #55 posted 6 July 2012 From the Chief Officer #56 posted 16 July 2...

Through the NWM Health and Safety Committee, concerns have been raised as to the adequacy of information provided regarding the changeover t...

As you may be aware the Herald Sun recently reported on the quality of water being used for training purposes at Fiskville. We take very ser...

There is a final Black Saturday review sessions with Jamie Mackenzie and his team on Thursday 26 July 19:00 Arthurs Creek station. All are...

D14 dates: South Morang - 13 July - 10:00-16:00 Sunbury - 15 July - 10:00-13:00 Melton - 15 July - 13:00-16:00 Attachments: Medium ta...

Please be advised that a member of NWMR has been diagnosed with whooping cough (pertussis). For more information about whooping cough inclu...

Do you do any other fantastic services to your community??? Well, if you don’t and you like a semi challenge it might be the time to start ...

Dear CFA members I would like to let you know the Board has now released the Professor Joy Report (into historical use of chemicals for li...

I wish to provide some guidance on the notification of Brigades regarding the Fiskville Investigation report and CFA’s response. I ask that...

The provider I was using to store the documents that were linked from the blog - MediaFire - has purged my account.  This is from a combinat...

Why being close to a BLEVE is a bad thing... BLEVE stands for either: Boiling liquid Expanding vapour explosion, or Blast L...

The Strathewen Fire Safety Project has Nicholas Gellie, a fire ecologist, preseting a talk on fire behaviour on Black Saturday. This is on W...

From the Chief Officer #53 Acting Chief Officer Steve Warrington Thanks everyone for taking the time to read this update. Chief Officer E...

From the Chief Officer #52.

This is a short video clip of how to handle a burning oil fire  in the kitchen.

From the Chief Officer #51